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Cable or Sat TV, pick your channels

So whether you have cable or Satalite how many here think the consumer should be able to pick the channels they want to pay for? If I want cable I am forced to buy from only one company per law, that is a pile of garbage. same with DTV. I'm not going to SAT because been there done that when I had no choice (no cable on my street back then) and in bad weather( searching for SAT) .
I'm tired of paying for a ton of shopping channels we never watch and not being able to vote with my money when channels dump or add something based on stupid politics.
While I never watch the food network I pay for it not by choice. Right now I would love to dump it but there is no way to dump the channel and tell them to go yo know what. I still hae to pay for that. I can't even vote with my money!

So whether you have cable or Satalite how many here think the consumer should be able to pick the channels they want to pay for? If I want cable I am forced to buy from only one company per law, that is a pile of garbage. same with DTV. I'm not going to SAT because been there done that when I had no choice (no cable on my street back then) and in bad weather( searching for SAT) .
I'm tired of paying for a ton of shopping channels we never watch and not being able to vote with my money when channels dump or add something based on stupid politics.
While I never watch the food network I pay for it not by choice. Right now I would love to dump it but there is no way to dump the channel and tell them to go yo know what. I still hae to pay for that. I can't even vote with my money!

I hate the 'line up' that we have to pay for. They removed the one channel that we got the dish for ! We did get it back but Hubby had to call "etc." We constantly get mailings from the same company wanting us to sign up with them. Price keeps going up for the package that has the few that we do like/want.

charly

"Well, you know even though I'm old my body should not be worn out.............I'm a lazy person so I never used it enough to wear it out"

In 1994 I moved from California to rural Indiana, leaving cable behind forever. Our new house had an antenna on it so we had the local stuff and pbs. Then the RCA dish came out and I paid top $$ to get it as soon as it hit the stores. It was nice to get the disney crap for the kids and my Discovery channel etc. but the garbage they loaded into the package grew every month, then the rates went up. They know what you watch, and move them to a higher package until in 1998 I said enough, and cancelled. God stepped in and helped me justify that by whacking it with lightning and fried the unit. So the antenna still worked. 2000, we moved to a less rural part of the state, with antenna, and got a few more local stations. In-laws came to visit and couldn't believe we were living so primitive - w/o cable. No CNN, weather channel, etc, that old folks must have to survive these times b/c the are computer challenged. Her pops went to the local Radio shack and bought for us a dish looking antenna that works with a power booster. It took me 2 years to install it and wow, we get clear picture and everything even on PBS. Several other new stations came in too. I don't need cable, but get 3 or 4 offers weekly in the mail from them. Same from dish systems. I simply take their unsolicited literature and stuff it back into their sase and send it back, they pay for the postage. Kind of my way to stimulate the economy through the USPS. As for what I watch in the premium entertainment realm, I watch it online. Survivor, Swamp people, Duck Dynasty, Storage wars are all there for free, cuz I already pay for cable internet ($31 / month) anyway, and they can't compete with that cuz they're paying huge postage fees every month. I'll never need to have or want to have paid cable TV. BTW, Radio shack and others no longer sell the same dish looking antenna I still use, but if they did, I'd buy several more as gifts to family that complain about high cable bills. ( :

I'm working on getting free "cable" by hooking my laptop up to my TV. Since I'm technologically challenged, this may take a while. With free Hulu or Rabbit TV ($10/year), you can then you can add Netflix if you want ... or just get movies a bit later free with other movie services. Almost every station offers free internet viewing ... hence the need for the laptop.

I may have to spring for a flat screen (talk about primitive here ... my 20-year old Toshiba still has a great picture) to make it all come together. Savings on Dish will pay for the TV quickly.

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I'm working on getting free "cable" by hooking my laptop up to my TV. Since I'm technologically challenged, this may take a while. With free Hulu or Rabbit TV ($10/year), you can then you can add Netflix if you want ... or just get movies a bit later free with other movie services. Almost every station offers free internet viewing ... hence the need for the laptop.

I may have to spring for a flat screen (talk about primitive here ... my 20-year old Toshiba still has a great picture) to make it all come together. Savings on Dish will pay for the TV quickly.

Netflix is great and if you buy a new flatscreen they already have the Netflix/Hulu/internet installed in them so there is no need for the laptop.

Really annoys me that AMC no longer has movies and the History Channel no longer shows much history and certainly no WWII etc. Seems like most go to info-mercials for large parts of the day. I don't like reality shows, not a sports fan, and am getting tired of Law and Order franchise re-runs. Would really like to have Turner Classic Movies and the Military Channel, but have to move up to the next level and am already paying more than I want. Am hoping that when U-verse gets here I may have an opportunity since my phone and internet are both ATT.

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